Vera Sorokina is a political refugee from Russia and helps run a printing shop owned by her father. Brogan Donnelly is a writer of Penny Dreadfuls and is part of the secret Dread Penny Society that tries to help the less fortunate people in London. When Brogan is sent by the Dread Master on a secret mission to discover a plot against the Russian ambasador, he takes a job as a man-of-all-work in Vera's shop. She is impressed by his kindness and charmed by his quick smile, but concerned at the scars on his knuckles that suggest he has been in more than his share of fist fights. As time goes on Brogan's interest in Vera becomes a conflict of interest in he search to discover if her father is part of the plot against the ambassador. Meanwhile, an unknown entity is extorting money from the merchants in Vera's neighborhood, and Brogan wants to help, but doesn't know how.
Here is another in the Dread Penny Society series. I enjoyed it, but have to admit that the books in this series are starting to all sound alike. I guess it would be normal for an author to use the same turn of phrase and discriptors in all their books. The heroines and heroes have very similar personalities, and they have been fighting against the same crime lord in all the books. I think I just read them too close to each other and would have enjoyed this one a little more if I had waited a few months. There is one more in the series, and the summary sounds pretty good, but I think I will wait a while before I read it. (368 p. 2021)
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